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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 21d

Can also ask how much aliasing is acceptable in the name of clarity and contrast. I'm playing Metaphor: ReFantazio right now. That game is quite aliased all the way through (GFD Engine), but the style of the game works better with that noise than it would TAA.

Anyways, I don't envy you your task. 😆

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 21d

I'm not sure. What if we look to other engines with nice visual clarity and find out how *they* do it? How does a Silk Engine game do it? Or Genome? Hell, I was playing a budget trucking game recently (appropriately titled "Truck Driver") that looked clean. Looked that up and find out it was Unity!

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 23d

There are a lot of players now who will see or feel UE5 and consciously (or subconsciously) think "slop." Or "low effort." Or "low quality." Even if the game is good, that initial taint WILL sour their perception permanently.

Keep the blind player from noticing that it's UE5 for as long as you can.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 23d

My unsolicited advice...

Once the foundation is laid and you're in the alpha phase (now?), stand back and look at the game in motion and ask yourself: "Can I tell this is UE5?" So long as the answer is yes, ask yourself why. And then, KILL THE REASONS WHY. One reason at a time.

I believe in you.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 23d

Finally checked out the GEX Trilogy. The wizards over at Limited Run Games have somehow managed to port these 25-year-old games to modern platforms without increasing their framerates. You can't even save your game properly. Incredible work, LRG!

Fuckin' slop.

#limitedrungames #gextrilogy #slop

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 23d

It will be astonishing if you are able to mop all of the UE5 sludge from your game’s last coat of paint. Wishing you luck though, and will remember to check your game out when it releases to see how it went! 🤘

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · 24d

UE5 titles are the Netflix Original Productions of gaming.

Anything is better. Even Unity is better. Frostbite. Silk. Katana. They can all produce vibes. Nearly every UE5 production feels like sticky factory farmed template cut slop no matter how much money is thrown at it.

#rip #tokyoxtremeracer

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Sep 7

If Silksong had released in 2020, not one single person would have said or thought "I can't believe this released so quickly, it feels like a game that should have taken an additional 5 years!"

That said, as an anti-capitalist I think It's great that the devs were relaxing throughout development.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jul 12

probably switzerland

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jul 12

wait is that country being slowly enveloped by water or am i thinking of somewhere else

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jun 24

My man, you been doing this for what, a decade...? How do these people even penetrate your consciousness at this point?

I made a Shenmue video about how the PC version sucked a fat one. Someone replied that they were going to rape my dad. 😭

Shake your head and press on. This issue is not solvable.

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jun 12

From the Fantasy Life i Twitter page: "You can now adjust the camera to see more of the world around you! By selecting 'Camera Operation (Far)' in the options menu, the camera’s movement range expands, maybe even enough to spot a dragon napping in the distance?"

Game changer (literally).

An image of Fantasy Life i, portraying the legacy "Normal" camera angle that nobody will ever, ever use again.

An image of Fantasy Life i, portraying the new "Far" camera angle that everybody will use from now on.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yesss, thank you!

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jun 3

My old lady can sense them from across the apartment. She’s just as crazy for Cheetos, does Sully eat those too?

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jun 1

This ain’t it.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Jun 1

@banditloaf.wcnews.com STOCKING UP

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 31

You must be sick to death of this question, but what’s your expected time frame for a full release? I’ve never played any Ultima but IX (I know, I know) and would love to play VII for the first time via your Revisited project.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 30

Good timing, then. I’ll begin my quest as soon as the patch drops! Guessing you’ll post about it? Maybe I’ll make like it’s 1990 and read the manual in the meantime.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 29

Excellent take that I think a lot of us inherently "felt" but couldn't properly articulate at the time.

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 29

@banditloaf.wcnews.com I am finally going to play my first WC game. I primarily like to play on my TV. Should I jump right to WC3 on PS1, or should I bite the bullet and sit at the PC with 1 and 2 first? And if so, are GOG versions suitable, or are there fan patches somewhere I should use? Thanks!

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 17

Is it the Indian achievement or is there something more? I'm trying to look this up and keep getting the achievement.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 17

This sounds like something you’re making up. And I’m no fan of his.

Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · May 17

An Early Access drug tycoon game?

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Apr 27

Dumping the game into a generic UE5 fantasy shell with little to no consideration for the aesthetic value or art direction of the original game is an "impressive remastering." Clownish take from Digital Foundry here, and one that will ensure we get more low quality trash like this in the future.

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Gaming Blows @gamingblows.bsky.social · Apr 24

Could you tell whether this was from the Oblivion Remaster or some random UE5 F2P slop I found on Steam?

(the answer is no)